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Former Director-General of FAO, José Graziano da Silva, and the former President of IFAD, Kanayo F. Nwanze. Afronomics Law | 3 September 2019 Access to Food and Intellectual Property Rights: Commentary on the Draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts By Titilayo Adebola   This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts (Guide) and voices its silence on intellectual property rights (IPRs). In the past decade, foreign investors have increased the number of investment...

The UK ABS Regulations apply to any company, organisation or individual (the user) conducting research and development on genetic resources and / or aTK where the genetic resources and / or aTK: was accessed on or after 12 October 2015 was accessed from a country that is party to the Nagoya Protocol and has access and benefit sharing ( ABS) legislation is not already governed by a specialised international instrument (such as the PIP Framework or the ITPGRFA) The user of the genetic resource and / or aTK is responsible for undertaking due diligence. This is to ensure that the material is ...

Nigerian labs, ACEGID, 54Gene boost genetics medicine in Africa Quartz 12/14/2020 © Provided by Quartz This month scientists successfully used gene editing for treating sickle cell disease, a hereditary disease common among people of African ancestry. This was done by identifying and cutting out a gene that instructs the production of the defective sickle-shaped cells in people with the disease. It would not have been possible without the sequencing of the entire human genome that makes up human DNA, particularly that of people of Black African ancestry. This approach is called precision ...

December 14, 2020 This month scientists successfully used gene editing for treating sickle cell disease, a hereditary disease common among people of African ancestry. This was done by identifying and cutting out a gene that instructs the production of the defective sickle-shaped cells in people with the disease. It would not have been possible without the sequencing of the entire human genome that makes up human DNA, particularly that of people of Black African ancestry. This approach is called precision medicine and involves the use of genetic information of a person or group for the develo...